Chapter 11 Quiz

Use this quiz to help you prep for the unit test.

1. Whigs found strong support in all of the following except

a. Irish immigrant labor

b. Commercial farmers in the Old Northwest

c. New urban commercial classes created in the market revolution

d. Factory owners and native-born factory workers

2. Whigs believed that government

a. Should follow a strict laissez faire policy

b. Was inevitably corrupt

c. Should foster economic development and moral progress

d. Power should be limited

3. Those who benefitted from the market economy were most likely to

a. Vote Whig

b. Support states’ rights

c. Vote Democrat

d. Reject the national bank

4. Isolationist southern neighborhoods tended to support the

a. Democrats

b. Whigs

c. Republicans

d. Free-Soilers

5. Democrats were most likely to

a. Support federally funded internal improvements

b. Support laws forbidding the sale of alcohol

c. Oppose federal support for building roads

d. Support the national bank

6. Normal schools were

a. Colleges of law

b. Colleges of medicine

c. Agricultural and mechanical colleges

d. State teacher’s colleges

7. Many Catholic parents

a. Refused to send their children to public school due to the strong vein of Protestant morality found there.

b. Approved of all textbooks used in public schools

c. Welcomed the King James Bible in public schools

d. Supported paying taxes to fund public schools

8. State governments began to build institutions to house orphans, the dependent poor, the insane, and criminals in the

a. 1770s

b. 1790s

c. 1820s

d. 1860s

9. Robert Wiltse, during his administration at Sing Sing prison in the 1830s, subjected prisoners to all of the following treatments except

a. Harsh punishments, including flogging and starvation

b. Forced labor to fund prison expenses

c. Sparse meals

d. Disciplinary hearings run by other prisoners

10. The American Temperance Society’s manifesto Lyman Beecher’s Six Sermons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils and Remedy of Temperance (1826). Which of the following statements incorrectly characterizes Beecher’s beliefs?

a. Beecher declared alcohol a semi-addictive drug and stated that moderate drinkers were not at risk of becoming drunkards

b. Beecher presented temperance, like other evangelical reforms, as a contest between self-control and slavery to one’s appetites

c. Beecher encouraged total abstinence

d. Beecher believed middle-class abstainers could help him spread reform through example and coercion

11. The Washington Temperance Society called for

a. Legislation to prohibit the sale of all alcoholic beverages

b. Reform of drunkards through conversion to Christianity

c. Voluntary abstinence from the use of alcohol

d. Limiting their membership to the wealthy elite

12. Irish and German immigrants

a. Enthusiastically joined temperance groups and worked for prohibition of alcohol

b. Tended to support the Democratic party

c. Joined the Whig Party

d. Supported racial equality

13. From the 1820s, white wage earners began replacing blacks in the workplace by employing all of the following tactics except

a. Underselling them

b. Pressuring employers to discriminate

c. Outright violence

d. Payoffs

14. As official discrimination increased, African Americans responded by

a. Building their own institutions

b. Marching and demonstrating in the streets

c. Employing random acts of violence

d. None of the above

15. Who was the radical abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator?

a. Theodore Parker

b. Wendell Phillips

c. Thomas Wentworth Higginson

d. William Lloyd Garrison

16. The goal of the American Colonization Society was to

a. Extend American settlements to the west coast

b. End slavery and send free blacks to Africa

c. Remove Indians to reservations

d. Take over Cuba

17. Beginning around 1840, women won significant changes in the laws governing women’s rights concerning all of the following topics except

a. Property

b. The wages of their own labor

c. Custody of children in cases of divorce

d. Voting

18. The first state to implement legal prohibition was

a. New York

b. Pennsylvania

c. South Carolina

d. Maine

19. The first state to institute a general emancipation law was

a. Pennsylvania

b. Maine

c. Vermont

d. Massachusetts

20. The only male delegate to the Seneca Falls Convention was

a. Lyman Beecher

b. Horace Mann

c. Frederick Douglas

d. Lewis Tappan